CVSS 3.1
8.8 highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2021-40857
High (8.8) in auerswald. EPSS 2.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
Auerswald COMpact 5500R devices before 8.2B allow Privilege Escalation via the passwd=1 substring.
Severity
- EPSS
- 2.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 81% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-522
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- auerswald:commander_6000r_ip_firmware
- auerswald:commander_6000rx_ip_firmware
- auerswald:commander_basic.2\(19\"\)_ip_firmware
- auerswald:commander_business\(19\"\)_ip_firmware
- auerswald:compact_4000_ip_firmware
- auerswald:compact_5000r_ip_firmware
- auerswald:compact_5010_voip_ip_firmware
- auerswald:compact_5020_voip_ip_firmware
- auerswald:compact_5200r_ip_firmware
- auerswald:compact_5500r_ip_firmware
References
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/165163/Auerswald-COMpact-8.0B-Privilege-Escalation.html
- https://www.redteam-pentesting.de/advisories/rt-sa-2021-005
- https://www.redteam-pentesting.de/en/advisories/-advisories-publicised-vulnerability-analyses
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/165163/Auerswald-COMpact-8.0B-Privilege-Escalation.html
- https://www.redteam-pentesting.de/advisories/rt-sa-2021-005